"I’m the one in control," said the Oil King — hours before his downfall скачать в хорошем качестве

"I’m the one in control," said the Oil King — hours before his downfall

In the autumn of 1889, in the small timber town of Redwood Crossing, California, Olivia Thornfield receives a letter that changes everything. Her father is dead, leaving her buried in debt, and the powerful oil magnate George Kingsley holds the legal power to take everything she owns. But Olivia isn't a woman who surrenders without a fight. For months, in secret, she had been running her father's lumber operation while he was dying. She knows every number, every agreement, every weakness in the contracts Kingsley holds against her. When she requests a direct meeting with the feared businessman, she doesn't arrive as a supplicant—she arrives as a negotiator. What George Kingsley proposes leaves her speechless: not a debt restructuring, but marriage. A cold, calculated contract that would protect the lumber operation and give them both what they need on paper. No love. No promises. Just practical terms between two people who understand the value of precision over sentiment. Olivia accepts. But there's a secret buried in her father's documents—an agreement with a corrupt former partner that could destroy everything they've built. When she finally finds the courage to tell the truth, she risks losing it all: the property, the arrangement... and something neither of them planned for—the fragile trust that had been building between them in silence. A story about power, strategy, and the kind of love that's built not with romantic words, but with brutal honesty in the most dangerous moments.